Refrigerator structure



Nov. 30, 1937. H. WOODHEAD ET AL "2,100,992

- REFRIGERATOR STRUCTURE Filed" on. 1, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 N v-30, 7. H. WOODHEAD ET AL 2,100,992

REFRIGERATOR STRUCTURE Filed Oct. 1 1935 v2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 30, 1937 i 2,100,992

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE REFRIGERATOR STRUCTURE Harry Woodhead, Roy A. Plumb, and Thomas A. Sindelar, Cleveland, Ohio, assignors to Truscon Steel Company, Youngstown, Ohio, a cor poration of Michigan Application October 1, 1935, 'Serial No. 43,124

Claims. (01. 62-89) Theinvention has particular reference to the really constitute partitions that define front means for storing food stuffs and the like in recompartments and rear compartments and it will frigerators, and the object is to provide a means be obvious by reference to Figure 1 that when that is readily accessible to permit the introducv the door is opened, the front compartments are 6 tion and removal of the articles and to hold those exposed and are readily available to introduce 5 that are most commonly wanted in exposed reand remove smaller articles that are commonly lation where they can be seen when the refrigerawanted. The rear compartments are readily actor door is opened. cessible also if the shelves are drawn outwardly A further object is to provide a means that as shown. l I p 0 forms a part of the storage devices which will When the shelves are in their rearmost posi- 10 materially obstruct the escape of cold air from tions and the door is closed, it will be evident that the refrigerator when the door is opened and yet air can circulate freely through all the comwill permit the necessary circulation of air withpartments and when the door is opened, it will in the food-holding chamber. also be clear by reference to Figure 2 that the' In the accompanying drawings: partitions or rear walls I'l constitute a bailie or 15 Figure l is a perspective view of a refrigerator obstruction that will hold much of the air bein which the novel mechanism is embodied. hind them and prevent its escape outwardly Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view through through the doorway. the same with the doors closed. In order that as much space as possible be Figure 3 is a detail sectional view on the'line utilizable, the top portion 9 is recessed, as shown 20 3-3 of Figure 2. at 2 I, and this recessed portion is covered by the Figure 4is a detail perspective view of a portion top portion of the door 8. Said top portion is of one of the sliding shelves or drawers. also recessed, as shown at 22, the two recesses In the embodiment disclosed the refrigerator 2| and 22 registering when the door is closed. A cabinet or case, designated 5, may be of any desuitable supporting bar 23 at the bottom of the 25 sired Orwell-known construction and encloses or recess II has secured to it a suitable shelf 24' defines a chamber 6 having an open front i that enters the recess 22 when the door is closed. closed by the usual swingingdoorl. An upper- Thus an additional gcooling-andstorage shelf is compartment outlined at 9 acts as a container for provided in the uppe'fpartofthe refrigerator in the refrigerating mechanism,- and located in the front ofj'the refrigerating mechanism.

upper portion of the chamber 6 is the us'ualcool There is also preferablyprovided in the boting member In. These parts may be of standard tom of the refrigerator aslidih'gjdrawer 25 havor well-known form, and it is believed need-no ing a front portion thatfislocated below the further disclosure. bottom of the door 8 andconstitute's an extension 3b Astationary shelf it below the member, to conof the same. The drawer therefore is not institutes a support for a drip tray i2,"and beneath terfered with'by the door 8, whether in opened this is a series of shelves l3 that are slidably or closed position, so that said drawer may be mounted so as to be movable outwardly through opened or closed, irrespective of the door 8.

the doorway I. These shelves being preferably From the foregoing, it is thbught that the con- 40 substantially duplicates except possibly for the struction, operation and many advantages of the different heights, a description of one, it is herein described. invention will be apparent to thought, will be suflicient for all. The shelf has a.v those skilled in the art without further descriprear portion H in the form of an open mesh tion, and it will be understood that various basket preferably of rods that thus make the changes in the size, shape, proportion and minor bottom and sides foraminous. The front pordetails of construction may be resorted to with- 45 tion of the shelf may be of sheet metal, having out departing from the spirit or sacrificing any a bottom l5, side walls l6 and a rear wall II. The of the advantages of the invention.

basket portion is suitably welded or otherwise What we claim, is:

attached to this front portion. The front of 1. In a refrigerator including a casing having said front portion may have retaining rods IS a chamber for the goods to be refrigerated proextending horizontally across the same, and the vided with a doorway, and refrigerating means sheet metal portion preferably has a rolled rim within the chamber, a drawer having an open is extending entirely around it. The top shelf front and an open top mounted in the chamber preferably, though not necessarily, may have a and movable outwardly through the doorway,

top wall 20. The walls l'l, it will be noted, said drawer having a transverse partition inrear 55 of its front portion that divides said drawer into a rear compartment and a front compartment, the front compartment beingaccessible through the doorway by way of the open front of the drawer when the drawer is within the chamber, and the rear compartment being accessible by way of the open top of the drawer when the drawer is moved outwardly.

2. In a refrigerator including a casing having a chamber for the goods to be refrigerated, and having a doorway, and refrigerating means within the chamber, a drawer having an open front and an open top slidably mounted in the chamber and movable outwardly through the doorway, said drawer having a substantially solid transverse partition behind its front end that divides the drawer into a front compartment and a rear compartment, and said partition being arranged to extend across the doorway to form an obstruction to the escape of cold air from the refrigerator when the doorway is open, the open front of the drawer providing access to the front compartment when the doorway is open and the open top of the drawer providing access to the rear compartment when the drawer is drawn outwardly.

3. In a refrigerator including a casing having a chamber for the goods to be refrigerated and provided with a doorway, and refrigerating means within the chamber, a plurality of drawers in the casing, each drawer having a transverse partition behind its front end that forms a front compartment and a rear compartment, the said partitions of the different drawers coacting to substantially close the portion of the chamber occupied by the drawers, against the' escape of cold air from the chamber through the doorway when the latter is open.

permit the circulation of air from one drawer to another behind the partitions, the said partitions of the different drawers coacting to substantially close the portion of the chamber occupied by the near compartments against the escape of cold air through the doorway.

5. In av refrigerator including a casing having a chamber for the goods to be refrigerated, and

provided with a doorway, and refrigerating means within the chamber, a plurality of drawers having ,open fronts and tops and arranged one'above the other in the chamber and slidable outwardly through the doorway, each drawer having a transverse partition behind its front end, dividing the drawer into a small front compartment and a rear compartment that is accessible through the open top of the drawer when the latter is moved outwardly through the doorway, the front compartment having a front retaining wall and the partitions of the drawers when the drawers are within the chamber together forming a wall that obstructs the escape of cold air from the rear compartments.

HARRY WOODHEAD: ROY A. PLUMB. THOS. A. SINDELAR. 

